Anelise Hanson Shrout

As the History Representative for ACIS, I have the distinct privilege to chair the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book. If you, or someone you know, has a book copyrighted in 2025 in Irish Studies please do consider submitting! Details here. 🗃️ #speirgorm

We went to the zoo this weekend, and the teenager taking tickets for the carousel was casually reading Claudio Saunt's West of the Revolution.

Serving the Nation - University of Oklahoma Press Well before the creation of the United States, the Cherokee people administered their own social policy—a form of what today might be called social welfar...

Julie Reed's Serving the Nation has some good citations on mission schools (and is overall a fantastic book) - www.oupress.com/978080615224...

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

Yes. And, some of us who teach in CS-like fields are *also* teaching kids not to use AI, because it turns out that you need a basic understanding of how computer languages work before you can "vibe code" effectively.

I am in a meeting about whether the cemetery board should hire some goats - and one sheep - to mow. This is the best meeting I have ever been in.

YouTube video by Glucksman Ireland House NYU Launch of Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move

Video of our launch of Rituals of Migration @gihnyu.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social is now up on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qh1...
@irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social @appalachianphilly.bsky.social

NPR reports that "The Science on Tylenol and autism isn't clear."

The blessing and curse of the scientific method is that it reflects a commitment to skepticism and constant re-evaluation of knowledge. There is ALWAYS room for doubt.

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Publisher's Marketplace screenshot: DATA EMPIRE By Roopika Risam Imprint: Harper, Transworld Associate professor at Dartmouth College Roopika Risam's DATA EMPIRE, a history of 11,000 years of data collection, from ancient cave markings and knotted strings to colonial censuses and modern digital surveillance, showing how it has always been used to shape civilizations, uphold empires, and control lives, to Sarah Haugen at Harper, in a pre-empt, for publication in July 2026, by Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency (NA). Rights also to Alex Christofi at Transworld (UK).

Now DATA EMPIRE is US official!

New Jersey PBS shutting down in July - New Jersey Globe New Jersey PBS is expected to cease operations in July 2026 following WNET's decision not to renew its agreement, the New Jersey Globe has learned. The

NJ PBS shutting down next summer.

“15yrs ago Gov. Christie ended 4 decades of state funding for public TV, forcing them to find a new funder. The state cut $750k in funding this yr, but that was hardly the fatal blow; that came from the end of federal funds.”

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1. Modeling data does not a historical argument make.

2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors.

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Today I learned that John Gillis - author of Islands of the Mind, a text formative of my approach to Atlantic history - also wrote books about early modern marriage, which I'm now reading to help a friend craft their wedding ceremony.

We Here Press

welcome home, we here press ❤️‍🔥 we're honored that our inaugural project will be to publish @dorothyjberry.bsky.social's ***the house archives built & other thoughts on black archival possibilities*** coming october 2025 www.weherepress.org

The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...

I've been critical of the U(C) as an institution, but I am also incredibly grateful for the education I received there in the early 2000s. The current institutional approach is a betrayal of the life of the mind ethos that drew me to UChicago in the first place. www.compactmag.com/article/the-...

Book, blurred in the foreground. Two bare feet propped on a windowsill underneath a wall calendar in the middle ground. Suburban houses through the window in the background.

Starting this new project by pretending like I'm doing comps again - making lists, taking notes in a template, reading in all kinds of weird poses.

continue to collect best e.g.s of assignable articles, especially shorter than these great ones!

will compile, along with assignment prompts, this week

Related: "Can't you just use some family money until you get a job?"

Congratulations! What fabulous news!

AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵

We've packed up our Maine house and relocated to a small apartment in NJ for my year of sabbatical. Any #skystorians advice about starting a whole new project with a year of unstructured time? Alternately, any academic writing groups in the NY/NJ area open to a new member?

Tenure-track African American history job (19th c.) at Bates College in Maine, for those on the market.
Go get it, and good luck! #bskystorians
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Hang out with super-cool @nolauren.bsky.social! (I know you know this already)

Mapping Lesbian History: Q&A with Cameron Blevins and Annelise Heinz Historians Cameron Blevins and Annelise Heinz use digital mapping technology to uncover a hidden geography of lesbian life in the 1970s and 1980s, tracing patterns of connection among lesbian women in...

Many of the places that loom largest in queer history—NYC’s Stonewall Inn, San Francisco’s Castro district—tend to focus on gay men & urban spaces. A fuller history is told by Cameron Blevins and Annelise Heinz.
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And I find myself wondering if there are other, less exclusive structures that we could imagine with.

I think it's perfectly ok to wish that every person had the time to learn to learn, then learn a particular content area, then become expert in it, but the model that structures our imagination is, I think, the medieval university and/or craft guilds.

A lot of the time, when academics (including myself) pine for a mode of education that affords slow learning, we are actually expressing a desire for a mode of education that, historically, was available only to a small and relatively elite subset of society.

Academia: The Questions Are Big! It's the Curricula That Got Small. Thursday's Child Has Far to Go, But He At Least Read T.J. Kalaitzidis

"You can’t get away from the time problem in particular. ... nobody’s going to put up with a redesign of the system that formally obliges a student to a decade or more of learning in the system." - timothyburke.substack.com/p/academia-t...

I've been finding @timothyburke.bsky.social's essays about AI and higher ed incredibly useful. Today's helped make concrete a vague idea I've been kicking around for awhile.

Humanities and AI Virtual Institute - Schmidt Sciences

As many of you know, I'm no longer with the NEH. But I'm happy to say that I will be able to continue my work doing DH funding! I have recently started as an advisor to Schmidt Sciences, helping them with their HAVI program that funds DH projects. www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...